Toucan

[Padlock]

Greetings Thinking of doing a Toucan with Coopers irish stout and English bitter 500g medium spray malt and 500g sugar 30g fuggles. Will it work

 

[MaggieO]

Coopers has recipes on their web site. You might find someone has already done this.

https://community.diybeer.com/forum/7-diy-brewing-recipe-resource/

 

[Paleman]

Greetings Thinking of doing a Toucan with Coopers irish stout and English bitter 500g medium spray malt and 500g sugar 30g fuggles. Will it work

Seems a very popular brew on the coopers forum. Most use the stout and dark ale cans and 1 kilo of dext. They say comes very close to Coopers Best Extra Stout if you culture the yeast from 4 - 6 stubbies of Pale Ale.

 

[Grmblz]

From the Coopers site, recipe for Best Extra Stout

• 1 × Stout (1.7kg)
• 1 × Thomas Coopers Dark Malt Extract (1.5kg)
• 1 × Coopers Dextrose (1kg)

6.8% ALCOHOL BY VOLUME 270 COLOUR (EBC) 42 BITTERNESS (IBU)

the dark malt extract is not hopped, your English bitter is, and you're adding a bit more fermentables, and hops, so you'll end up with about 7% abv, the colour will be lighter (English bitter v dark malt extract) and your bitterness will be about double due to the hops in the English bitter, the Fuggles wont add bitterness unless you boil them.

 

[Padlock]

From the Coopers site, recipe for Best Extra Stout

• 1 × Stout (1.7kg)
• 1 × Thomas Coopers Dark Malt Extract (1.5kg)
• 1 × Coopers Dextrose (1kg)

6.8% ALCOHOL BY VOLUME 270 COLOUR (EBC) 42 BITTERNESS (IBU)

the dark malt extract is not hopped, your English bitter is, and you're adding a bit more fermentables, and hops, so you'll end up with about 7% abv, the colour will be lighter (English bitter v dark malt extract) and your bitterness will be about double due to the hops in the English bitter, the Fuggles wont add bitterness unless you boil them.

Thanks for the info .Will have a go at that

 

[Padlock]

Thank you for your reply. New to the game so any advice from people in the know welcome.

 

[Padlock]

Thank you for your reply. New to the game so any advice from people in the know welcome. But could I add lactose to ease the bitterness